Accessibility Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Accessibility skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 163 200
Rank change year-on-year +24 +37 +29
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 508 263 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.78% 1.65% 0.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.61% 9.43% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 169 101
10th Percentile £322 £300 £318
25th Percentile £401 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £494
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -11.94% +6.81%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £585
90th Percentile £588 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £469 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -1.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 3
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.25 £15.89
25th Percentile £14.22 £16.75 £19.44
Median hourly rate £16.18 £20.50 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% -19.16% +44.91%
75th Percentile £45.00 £27.50 £25.93
90th Percentile £72.25 £46.58 £26.27
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £30.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year -34.96% +18.27% +44.44%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Accessibility falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,787 2,788 2,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.81% 17.52% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,765 1,766 1,292
10th Percentile £306 £263 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 640 217 193
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.49 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.46 £15.60 £15.22
Median hourly rate £32.40 £25.08 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.19% -8.82% -29.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £30.00 £27.67
% change year-on-year +4.87% +8.42% -23.14%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Accessibility relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Accessibility job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Accessibility.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Accessibility.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Accessibility

Accessibility
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -29 182 £461 +10.15% 211
Midlands +51 149 £439 +2.03% 80
West Midlands +46 135 £438 -1.69% 55
North West -51 67 £511 +26.17% 121
Yorkshire -19 61 £488 +12.07% 57
North East -6 55 £450 +0.56% 33
South West -8 55 £475 +11.76% 96
Scotland -17 50 £401 -15.58% 80
South East -39 43 £470 +3.30% 149
East of England -16 18 £465 -15.55% 148
East Midlands -6 13 £523 +62.27% 25
Wales -9 10 £375 -27.71% 19
Northern Ireland +8 3 £638 - 75
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (5.91%) CMS
2 26 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 25 (4.92%) Confluence
4 12 (2.36%) WordPress
5 5 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.98%) Drupal
6 3 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.59%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Applications
1 12 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.79%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Navisworks
5 2 (0.39%) Revit
5 2 (0.39%) Sketch
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (22.05%) AWS
2 104 (20.47%) Azure
3 72 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (12.40%) GitHub
5 44 (8.66%) Figma
5 44 (8.66%) Power Platform
6 37 (7.28%) Power Automate
7 36 (7.09%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (5.71%) Serverless
9 27 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (4.33%) GCP
11 17 (3.35%) PowerApps
12 16 (3.15%) Azure Functions
13 15 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (2.36%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.17%) Firebase
17 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.79%) NAS
2 3 (0.59%) Intranet
3 2 (0.39%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.09%) MongoDB
2 23 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 20 (3.94%) Power BI
4 16 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.95%) Metadata
6 11 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.79%) Delta Lake
7 4 (0.79%) ZAP BI
8 3 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.39%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.39%) Redis
9 2 (0.39%) Tableau
10 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 94 (18.50%) Git
2 65 (12.80%) Selenium
3 59 (11.61%) Cucumber
4 44 (8.66%) GitLab
5 41 (8.07%) JUnit
6 38 (7.48%) JIRA
7 37 (7.28%) Gatling
8 35 (6.89%) Jenkins
9 30 (5.91%) Cypress.io
10 21 (4.13%) SonarQube
11 17 (3.35%) Postman
11 17 (3.35%) REST Assured
12 15 (2.95%) WebDriver
13 12 (2.36%) Maven
14 11 (2.17%) MSI
15 9 (1.77%) Gradle
16 8 (1.57%) fastlane
17 6 (1.18%) Serenity BDD
17 6 (1.18%) Storybook
17 6 (1.18%) TestNG
General
1 237 (46.65%) Public Sector
2 194 (38.19%) Social Skills
3 74 (14.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (9.25%) Finance
6 21 (4.13%) Marketing
7 19 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (2.76%) Military
9 12 (2.36%) Publishing
10 8 (1.57%) Local Government
11 7 (1.38%) Legal
12 5 (0.98%) Banking
12 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.59%) Games
13 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Electronics
14 2 (0.39%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (24.80%) Developer
2 83 (16.34%) Senior
3 75 (14.76%) Designer
4 53 (10.43%) Lead
5 37 (7.28%) Analyst
6 36 (7.09%) Senior Developer
7 30 (5.91%) Content Designer
7 30 (5.91%) Quality Engineer
8 20 (3.94%) Architect
9 19 (3.74%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 19 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 17 (3.35%) User Researcher
11 16 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (3.15%) Technical Leader
11 16 (3.15%) Test Engineer
12 15 (2.95%) Java Developer
12 15 (2.95%) Test Analyst
13 14 (2.76%) Tester
13 14 (2.76%) UX Designer
14 13 (2.56%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (16.73%) React
2 74 (14.57%) HTML
3 71 (13.98%) REST
4 70 (13.78%) CSS
5 59 (11.61%) Playwright
6 57 (11.22%) Spring
7 51 (10.04%) RESTful
8 50 (9.84%) Node.js
9 40 (7.87%) Spring Boot
10 39 (7.68%) JSON
11 38 (7.48%) Terraform
12 35 (6.89%) Gherkin
13 31 (6.10%) HTML5
14 29 (5.71%) CSS3
15 26 (5.12%) .NET
16 23 (4.53%) WireMock
17 21 (4.13%) Kafka
18 20 (3.94%) Jest
19 16 (3.15%) Express.js
20 15 (2.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 42 (8.27%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.12%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.13%) Mobile App
5 18 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.56%) Taxonomies
7 10 (1.97%) Blog
7 10 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.77%) NHS
9 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.98%) Social Media
11 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.79%) Digital Wallet
11 4 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.36%) Windows
2 7 (1.38%) Android
3 6 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.79%) macOS
5 3 (0.59%) AIX
6 1 (0.20%) Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (58.66%) Agile
2 206 (40.55%) CI/CD
3 145 (28.54%) Test Automation
4 135 (26.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 133 (26.18%) DevOps
6 126 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 125 (24.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 111 (21.85%) User Experience
9 92 (18.11%) Microservices
10 89 (17.52%) Scrum
11 80 (15.75%) User Research
12 75 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 72 (14.17%) TDD
14 71 (13.98%) Technical Leadership
15 70 (13.78%) Analytics
15 70 (13.78%) UX Design
16 67 (13.19%) AI
17 63 (12.40%) Mentoring
18 58 (11.42%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 137 (26.97%) JavaScript
2 92 (18.11%) Java
3 67 (13.19%) TypeScript
4 44 (8.66%) C#
5 39 (7.68%) Python
6 27 (5.31%) SQL
7 12 (2.36%) Scala
8 11 (2.17%) Bicep
9 7 (1.38%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.38%) PHP
10 6 (1.18%) Ruby
11 5 (0.98%) Swift
12 2 (0.39%) Dart
12 2 (0.39%) R
13 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 136 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 116 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 58 (11.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (4.53%) Degree
6 13 (2.56%) ISTQB
7 8 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ACCA
11 2 (0.39%) CCA
11 2 (0.39%) CIMA
11 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.39%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (31.50%) WCAG
2 75 (14.76%) QA
3 30 (5.91%) GDPR
4 25 (4.92%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.17%) NCSC
6 8 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.98%) PMO
8 3 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.39%) HL7
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 77 (15.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (14.37%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.71%) Grafana
3 9 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.57%) Argo
4 8 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.79%) Ansible
6 2 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.39%) Kibana
7 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 81 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.72%) Google
3 20 (3.94%) Adobe
4 19 (3.74%) Oracle
5 14 (2.76%) Splunk
6 11 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.38%) Databricks
10 5 (0.98%) dotdigital
10 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.98%) TikTok
11 4 (0.79%) Apple
11 4 (0.79%) SAP
12 3 (0.59%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.59%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.39%) Autodesk
13 2 (0.39%) Confluent
13 2 (0.39%) Informatica